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WILLIAMSTON, N.C. — Two years after her brother’s death, Debra Pierce still wonders whether the 50-year-old would have survived his heart attack if her local hospital hadn’t closed

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Congo’s Ebola outbreak “had a big head start, and we’re still behind,” the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday, adding that the medical community was “catching up” even as militant attacks plague the stricken region

My name is Tedros, and I serve as the Director-General of the World Health Organization, the United Nations agency responsible for global public health. It is not common for me to write directly to the people of a single community, but today I feel it is not only appropriate, it is necessary

Patients enrolled in some of the nation’s largest Medicare Advantage plans were denied requests for rehabilitation and other critical services at unusually high rates, according to a report released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general

QU Dongyu addresses the fourth annual executive meeting of the FAO‑UNEP‑WHO‑WOAH Quadripartite

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At the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly in Geneva, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has presented four distinguished leaders with the Award for Global Health, recognizing their lifetime achievements and exceptional contributions to improving the health and well-being of communities worldwide